The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plug-in parts whichextend the Real Studio development environment with 1,700 classesfeaturing over 46,000 documented functions. Our plugins support allthree platforms Mac OS X, Windows and Linux with all project typesdesktop, web and console.

Some of the highlights on the 13.1 update:

First we put a lot of work into getting our plugins working fine withthe upcoming Xojo 2013r1 version. If you plan to try the new release, beaware that older plugin versions will not work correctly with Xojo. Youcan use the normal Real Studio plugins from us with Xojo, but you mayprefer to download our new Xojo plugins. They are optimized for the newversion and you benefit from smaller file sizes and faster loadingtimes.

Our new NikonCamera plugin allows you to connect to Nikon cameras withthe Nikon SDK. You can query features and download image files. Withsending commands to the devices you can have it delete files or shoot anew image. Than you can download image files and also show live videopreview.

For Core Image we added ten new filter classes. You can automaticallyenhance your pictures by using the auto adjust filter functions. InCocoa applications you can directly render to a picture with a context.The new MT functions on CIImageMBS allow you to load images better inbackground thread.

For Cocoa applications we have new classes for Drag and Drop handling.We also improved our custom cocoa control classes to have drag and dropevents. Our NSMenu handling has been improved with better validationcode. For Core Animation we now have classes for layers and transitionsto do some effects.

In your Mac application you can use the new keychain classes which usethe latest APIs and provide much more functionality. The MacAliasMBSclass has been improved to use newer APIs and offer more functionality.Several CoreGraphics functions have been updated and we got new functionto create graphics contexts. This way you can draw directly to pictureobjects in Cocoa.

For Windows we have now a class to learn about disk changes. The WMIclasses can now read string arrays. Our DNS functions likeDNSNameToAddressMBS now use newer APIs on Windows 7 and still carryfallback code for Windows XP. So you get better result with DNS queries.And we now support IPv6 for all platforms.

To improve security we now offer HMAC hash functions for MD5, SHA1 andSHA256.

We improved our SQL Plugin with new informix class and improved recordinsertion code. The Twain scanning classes got new options fororientation and resolution and handle better when scanning without userinterface. For the Java database classes we improved blob support fordrivers using streams.

The plug-ins require Real Studio 2006r4 or newer. Also required are 1 GBhard disc space and around 512 MB of RAM in addition to the requirementsof Real Studio and your operation system itself. While all plug-in partscompile on Mac OS X (universal), Linux and Windows, each function maydepend on additional system requirements to work successfully.

Plugin licenses are available for components or for the completecollection. Starting at 20 Euro ($29 USD) for one component. Thecomplete package costs 199 Euro ($299 USD) for commercial usage. If youbuy a current license, you will get free updates for one year. Afterthat year, you can update your license to cover an additional year.